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George Washington Custis LEE
Confederate general in the American Civil War, president of Washington and Lee University
1832 - 1913 -
Garret HOBART
24th Vice President of the United States
1844 - 1899 -
Martha WASHINGTON
Wife of George Washington, first First Lady of the United States
1731 - 1802 -
Wyatt EARP
American deputy sheriff and deputy U.S. marshal in Tombstone, Arizona, best known for his part in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1848 - 1929 -
Walter SCOTT
Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
1771 - 1832 -
Jacques NECKER
French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI
1732 - 1804 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Alexandre DUMAS
French author and dramatist
1824 - 1895 -
Joachim MURAT
Marshal of France
1767 - 1815 -
Maurice BARRYMORE
Patriarch of the Barrymore acting family
1847 - 1905 -
Sarah Bernhardt
French stage actress
1844 - 1923 -
Le douanier ROUSSEAU
French Post-Impressionist painter
1844 - 1910 -
Elisabeth VIGEE LE BRUN
French painter
1755 - 1842 -
Charles Alfred PILLSBURY
American flour industrialist, co-founder and namesake of the Pillsbury Company
1842 - 1899 -
George Armstrong CUSTER
United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars
1839 - 1876 -
Joseph SMITH
American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
1805 - 1844 -
Louise MICHEL
French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker
1830 - 1905 -
Théophile GAUTIER
French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic
1811 - 1872 -
Leconte de Lisle
French poet
1818 - 1894 -
Bernadette SOUBIROUS
French miller's daughter, she was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 1933
1844 - 1879